Thinkpad T430u low fan speed

Hello!
When I am playing on thinkpad t430u CPU/GPU becomes very hot (95-100C), but fan speed is only 3000-3500 RPM. Using "tpfancontrol" I achieved almost 5000 RPM at manual mode and temperatures decreases to 70-75C.
Why fan is so slow at auto mode?
I updated BIOS, but it does not help. Moreover in BIOS there is no fan settings (quiet/performance) as on my old PC.
OS: Windows 8, Nvidia GPU, latest drivers.
Thanks!

Hi!
During normal working (word, firefox etc..) temp is around 60-75° with the fan always running at 3800rpm.
While I was doing a map upgrade on my garmin navigation system the notebook crashed many times in a row and I couldn't figure out why.
After some investigation I found out that it was the system overheating protection shutting it down.
I checked this by putting stress on the cpu with prim95 and there the temp goes up as I described in the previous post - just faster than weith the map upgrade. Ambient was 23-24° C.
What just made me wonder is why the hell doesn't the fan speed go up like it once used to do!?
I would expect the fan speed rising at around 75° or so but instead it started at 95° C which way too late!
This is my 3rd Thinkpad and I never experienced this behavior - however I am not sure when it started.

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